Biography

Although there had been rumors that Charles Chaplin, who started out working for Mack Sennett, had once been a Kop, it had never been definitively shown to be true. However, in 2010 a 1914 Keystone Kop short that had previously thought to have been lost, A Thief Catcher (1914), was found at an antique sale in Michigan. In it Chaplin can be clearly seen as playing a Kop.

Members have included Ford Sterling, Edgar Kennedy, Del Lord, Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, Charles Avery, Bobby Dunn, George Jeske, Hank Mann, Mack Riley, Slim Summerville, Chester Conklin, Malcolm St. Clair, A. Edward Sutherland, Edward F. Cline, Sydney Chaplin, Al St. John, Lige Conley, 'Snub' Pollard, Bobby Vernon, Mack Swain, Heinie Mann, Clyde Cook, James Finlayson, Eddie Gribbon, Erle C. Kenton, Glen Cavender, Heinie Conklin, Charles Chaplin, William Nigh, Ray Grey, Josh Binney, Tom Kennedy, Eddie Baker.

The 1922 extended car/train chase appears to use Union Pacific P-7 class 4-6-2 Pacific steam locomotive 3218, crudely renumbered 1237, pulling a baggage car and three clerestory roof arch-windowed coaches.